u/Aidamis

Hi. I've been having those episodes lately: for some reason I'm trying to "look at myself from an observer's perspective", when suddenly fear rushes in. I'm trying to piece together whether there's anything out there outside of me, and whether anything would exist when I'm gone. This in turn brings those vain thoughts of "what if there was a technology/black magic to become immortal", yet when I ask myself why would I want this I can't answer beyond "just because/I'm afraid of the void that comes after cessation of biological activity".

I am slightly spiritual (not saying this to brag only to point out that I'm 100% "only science is true" or 100% agnostic), I know the theories about "we are but God playing hide and seek with themselves" (see Alan Watts for instance) and afaik people like Dr K advocate for looking for meaning in simpler places and in what aligns with one wishes and values/what feels good to a given human.

But at the end of the day I'm just supremely confused and/or scared, and this leads to unhealthy coping mechanisms (such as binge gaming) which doesn't help in finding meaning/values at all. In some sense, I'm so afraid of those passing existential thoughts I'd rather numb most of my brain, and also undersleep. I know the only healthy way is to sit with those emotions, but I am afraid of the person that will come out of the other side of the tunnel and that won't be me. Cause in some sense, to change is to die early (to me).

I feel stun-locked in life.

I wonder what would be you people's thoughts and what kind of insight you might be able to share. Thank you for your guidance!

Kind of a shot in the dark but I wonder if there's a death game VN where the organization gets payback from players (or a third party). I know that in Killer Queen 2>!the first open ending showed a survivor go on a journey to inflict as much damage as possible to the organization!< so I'm looking for something similar if not something that goes beyond that.

I'm aware of the Danganronpa franchise but I've never looked into spoilers so I'm not sure about how much pain the survivors dish out to the bear and whoever stands behind it.

I've also seen high ratings for Cage: Open and Cage: Close, but judging from a review the organization is so OP it would take Light from Death Note teaming up with Lellouch from Code Geass to put a dent on them.

Still, if there are revenge VNs where gods and kings get recked by one angry dude, similar death game VNs are bound to exist.

Thank you in advance for any tips!

Side-note, I'm cool with any genre including bombastic chuuni. After all, I'm not here to discuss the realism of death game participants going after the organizers. If you look at the flawed Battle Royale 2, >!it took a war to make the people in charge flinch, and even then they bent over backwards to solve the problem in an evil rather than an efficient way!<.

Hi.

Trying to figure out the optimal configuration to play the game with stable FPS (I'm okay if it's below 60) on a Lenovo Legion 5 with 16 gb of ram, a 1650 card with 4 GB VRAM and an AMD 4800H CPU (game runs on SSD).

Currently downloading Nvidia App to see what it would recommend by default. I have the Clair mod from Nexus which allows me to set sharpening to 0 and to uncap the FPS during cutscenes (though I may consent to the cap if it throws the game out of whack).

Thank you!

I know of Failure Frame, Instant Death ("Sokushi Cheat ga Saikyou sugite"), Arifureta, to an extent The Wrong Way To Do Healing Magic (several ppl from the same school get isekai-ed), Grimgar of Ash (several people are isekai-ed).

I'm also aware of Log Horizon being a "millions of ppl get isekai-ed" type of story.

What I'm wondering is whether there's some name for the subgenre. Cause I know of the subtypes tensei (reincarnation), ten-i (transmigration), shoukan (summoning), naru (OP protag/protag that gets OP) (quoting a BreadHead video called "Isekai and Individualism" here).

But I'm not aware of terms for 1-person-isekaied vs multiple-ppl-isekaied.

So I wonder if you folks have heard of any and what would be your favorite works in that department (western stuff on royalroad/scribblehub is fine, after all the isekai genre belongs to no one).

Thank you!